DHV:
789
Tourin ID:
SHRIN 5
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Brescia
Giovanni Paolo
Maggini
Date:
1600 C
Label Text:
Paolo Maggini Brescia [printed (or handwritten in imitation of printing?)]
Body Shape:
Guitar
Current Location:
USA
Vermillion, SD
No. of Strings:
3
Collection:
National Music Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
3432
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, 1968/9-1984; Leandro Bisiach, Milan
Measurements:
Body Length:
090.0
String Length:
Rib Depth:
16.4
Upper Width:
38.4
Middle Width:
30
Bottom Width:
50
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
Banks 1984, p. 22
Photographs:
On museum’s website (detached table and back, each from both sides; composite of inner surfaces of both with label; composite of 6 rib segments; side view of neck/pegbox with 3 tuning machines/scroll [color]); Banks 1984, p. 23 (front, inside of back, label)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Currently disassembled, condition fragile. Back and ribs are cherry wood. Date “before 1630” (Banks 1984); website lists as “attributed to” Maggini. Neck, pegbox and scroll not original; was used as 3-string contrabass. Website dimensions: 89.3, 38.1/29.8/49.2, 16.4, - (stop length 45.0); Banks dimensions: 90, 38/-/49.5, 16, -. Tourin: no dimensions; gave maker as Gasparo da Salo; classified as a bass.